Friendly_id and Rake problem.

rubyonrails-talk
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Hello there,

The plugin friendly_id (http://github.com/norman/friendly_id) has rake tasks that you can call.

I'm using this plugin as a gem.

I'm trying this: rake friendly_id:make_slugs MODEL=Post and it is rising this error: Don't know how to build task 'friendly_id:make_slugs'

So the question is: how do I call a gem's rake task?

David Sousa

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Taken directly from the README.rdoc that is part of the installed package:

  sudo gem install friendly_id   cd my_app   script/generate friendly_id   rake db:migrate

Here's how to see the documentation for installed gems on your system.

1) create an executable file named "gem_server.rb" that contains

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems/server'

gem_server = Gem::Server.new Gem.dir, 8089, false puts gem_server.inspect gem_server.run

2) run: gem_server.rb &

3) browse to: localhost:8089

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Hi Rick,

thanks for the replay, but you did not understand my problem. I'll try to be more clear now.

I'm using friendly_id as a GEM, and it is working perfectly. Because my application already has some data, I would like to generate slugs for the post that have been created already. So that is why I wanna to execute that rake task.

I can see that the rake task is defined at lib/tasks/friendly_id.rake, but how do I call that rake task in my application?

Any way thanks for the hint, I did not know how to browser the already installed gems' documentation.

David Sousa

Rick Lloyd wrote:

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I was looking into this ticket ( #59 When loading a plugin via rubygems, rake tasks aren't included - Ruby on Rails - rails ) and found out that this is a problem that every gem faces.

If someone knows a stable solution, pleas contact me.

Thanks.

David Sousa